What were you doing in your last year of school? Nerding out in the library or setting fire to the common room? Either way we’ll hazard a guess that the majority of you weren’t getting signed to record labels and producing smooth jams. Lancaster duo Bondax, however, are doing just that. They’re all over the […]
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Stream: The 2 Bears – Increase Your Faith (Daniel Avery Remix)
Daniel Avery, until now better known as Stopmakingme, has thus far been responsible for some barn-storming tracks and remixes, some exciting collaborations with Justin Robertson’s Deadstock 33s project, and more DJ sets than we can care to number. Right now he’s impressing with his ability to take things out of the club. As well as […]
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Stream: Killa P & Badness – Nuh Failer (Kahn remix)
Imagining a world where Kahn releases a sub-standard track is a futile endeavour. Presumably there’s an official investigation afoot regarding the correlation between mysterious chemicals in the Bristol water supply and the propensity of the city’s inhabitants to produce sounds that distort reality. Of more immediate interest to us, however, is the most recent track […]
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Review: Artifact – Archaic Line
Last year London based Deadplate Records inaugurated the start of the label with a release titled “Booty Call”‘ from Cardiff producers Lung & Maxx Roach. Backed with a remix from Randomer, it propelled the young label ran by Synamatix into one of the most prosperous new additions to look out for in 2012. Support from the […]
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Recommended: Jazz Neversleeps – Ladbroke Grove
The name Jazz Neversleeps may be unfamiliar now, but be prepared to hear him crop up more over the next few months. He has released two EPs over the last two years on On-Point and is due to drop another shortly. A glimpse into what he has been working on over the last few months […]
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Remixes & Blues Pt. V
With the exception of the last remix included, this edition of Remixes & Blues has somehow turned into some sort of codeine sponsored special with three out of four tracks having the power to sedate you into a different galaxy if desired. Strictly enjoy if you have no other obligations for the rest of the […]
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Recommended: 5kinAndBone5 – Make U Understand / Reset
One of the most sorely under-represented labels in the crowded mass of 2011 year end lists was Unknown to the Unknown, which was started just last year by DJ Haus from Hot City. Specializing in straight-up dancefloor killers that draw from all varieties of weird, Unknown to the Unknown has been putting out new releases […]
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Introducing: Bobby Champs
It’s safe to say that Pictures Music was one of the best labels of 2011, with an appallingly well-curated roster of artists like Dauwd, Lapalux, Koreless, Seams, Chairman Kato, Dark Sky and Rudi Zygadlo. It remains a small label with a trademark polish and a certain je-ne-sais-quoi feeling under every track. It’s that complexity that […]
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Recommended: Jacques Greene – Arrow (ft. Koreless)
Featuring Koreless? What exactly does that mean, ‘featuring’? We were hoping we’d hear Koreless’ dulcet tones providing an exclusive rap verse mid-song with many-a nonsensical adlib, in the style of a Timbaland guest verse. However, no such interlude appears, so don’t get your hopes up. No, instead it seems that Koreless is bringing his mastery […]
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Introducing: South London Ordnance
When South London Ordnance recently bemoaned his lack of public relations skills on Twitter, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to introduce him to you. The elusive 23-year-old producer’s Soundcloud had caught our attention with an endearing lack of biographic detail allowing the music to speak for itself. He’s one of the newest […]
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Recommended: Lianne La Havas – Forget (Shlohmo Remix)
Lianne La Havas was an unexpected addition to the singer-songwriter panorama last year, but nonetheless a welcome one, with her gratifying balance of silken delicacy and uninhibited edge. This remix from Shlohmo is also a very welcome surprise, with the LA producer bridging the gap between himself and La Havas by focusing on what the […]
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Chronicles: Introducing Perrion
If you ain’t H.O.M.E., you’re homeless. The internet has supplied us with a constant stream of new artists for years. It has given burgeoning MCs a place near side of estabilished acts as a most significant advancement within music, the lines between eminence and priority being blurred and especially over the last three years, a lot of […]
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